Field hockey at the 1960 Summer Olympics explained

Event:Field hockey
Games:1960 Summer
Venues:Olympic Velodrome
Stadio dei Marmi
Stadio Tre Fontane
Dates:26 August – 11 September 1960
Teams:16
Prev:1956
Next:1964

The field hockey tournament at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy was contested from August 26 to September 9, with sixteen participating teams. Only men competed in field hockey at these Games. Pakistan won the gold medal, defeating India in the final and ending India's run of six successive Olympic gold medals in field hockey. Spain won the bronze medal.[1]

Participating nations

Sixteen teams were placed into four preliminary groups of four teams each. After a preliminary round-robin set of matches, the top two teams in each group advanced to the quarter-finals.

Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D

Squads

See main article: Field hockey at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's team squads.

Preliminary round

Group A

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Second place play-off

New Zealand advanced to the quarter-finals. The Netherlands continued to the classification matches for 9th–12th place.

Group B

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Second place play-off

Australia advanced to the quarter-finals. Poland continued to the classification matches for 9th–12th place.

Group C

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Group D

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Knockout stage

Bracket

Quarter-final losers continued to play classification matches to determine 5th–8th place. The Great Britain versus Kenya match lasted 127 minutes and needed six overtime periods to determine the winner.[2]

Quarter-finals

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Semi-finals

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Gold medal match

Classification round

Fifth to eighth place classification

5–8th place semi-finals

----The match was abandoned due to darkness with the score tied at 1-1 after 40 minutes of extra time. Australia was initially awarded the match after a coin toss, but after an appeal by Kenya, the match was declared drawn and a replay was ordered.

Replay

Fifth place game

After the Australia-Kenya match was declared a draw and a replay ordered on appeal, this match was declared null and void, and a replay was ordered between New Zealand and the winner of the Australia-Kenya replay.

Replay

Seventh place game

The seventh-place game between Germany and Kenya was scratched as the German team had flown home after the Closing Ceremony. Both teams were awarded joint seventh place.

Ninth to twelfth place classification

As Poland declined to participate in the classification matches, they were awarded twelfth place: the other three teams played a round-robin set of matches.

An Italian traffic policeman on duty just outside the field blew his whistle. The Belgians thought it was the umpire's whistle and stopped playing, whereupon the French scored the only goal of the game.[2] --------

Thirteenth to sixteenth place classification

As Denmark declined to participate in the classification matches, they were awarded sixteenth place. The other three teams played a round-robin set of matches.

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Final standings

Medalists


Abdul Hamid
Abdul Rashid
Abdul Waheed
Bashir Ahmad
Ghulam Rasul
Anwar Khan
Khursheed Aslam
Habib Ali Kiddie
Manzoor Hussain Atif
Munir Dar
Mushtaq Ahmad
Motiullah
Naseer Bunda
Noor Alam

Joseph Antic
Leslie Claudius
Jaman Lal Sharma
Mohinder Lal
Shankar Lakshman
John Peter
Govind Sawant
Raghbir Singh Bhola
Udham Singh Kullar
Charanjit Singh
Jaswant Singh
Joginder Singh
Prithipal Singh Shantaram Jadhav

Pedro Amat
Francisco Caballer
Juan Calzado
José Colomer
Carlos del Coso
José Dinarés
Eduardo Dualde
Joaquín Dualde
Rafael Egusquiza
Ignacio Macaya
Pedro Murúa
Pedro Roig
Luis Usoz
Narciso Ventalló

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Hockey at the 1960 Rome Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417045821/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1960/HOK/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 20 September 2019.
  2. Book: Wallechinsky . David . The Complete Book of the Olympics . 1984 . Penguin Books . England . 0140066322 . 274 .